Working at State Farm Insurance in Bloomington, IL: 49 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Bloomington, IL Area

"It's a nice place to gain experience in insurance industry."

"I've worked at State Farm for a year and a half and I find it a very fast paced environment just the way I prefer. The company is amazing and is one of the oldest in the insurance business. My position was very fulfilling and required me to think out of the box a lot of time and I worked with NPI. This is a great company to work for."

"I've worked for StateFarm since 2011. I've found it to be a strong company with good ethical values and an emphasis on customer retention. The company employs around 14000 people and has over 100 locations in USA and Canada."

"State Farm is one of the best companies to work with in the US. Coworkers are very good and managers are talented. The tools are not in place for db2 udb dba support and process wise it takes more time in State Farm to change."

"I worked for State Farm for over 3 years. Overall, the company has some good benefits and working environment. Unfortunately, they tend to inhibit improvements to IT systems by limiting critical assessments of current processes and procedures. This is what ultimately caused their need to cut IT staffing by about 30% to save money to finish an extravagantly over budget project."

"I've worked on high traffic ecommerce sites such as generation sites such as www.statefarm.com doing both in-house SEO and SEM strategies."

"State farm is really a good company. If you can stream line IT management, that will give more profits and better build better IT systems."

"As a contractor, great company overall. FT internal employees need to improve on relationship with contractors. There is a wide gap which needs to be tightened to improve overall environment and productivity."

"I liked the company development structure and the custom frameworks which are developed by experienced developers made me to learn a lot of new stuff."

"Rewarding and challenging as well."

What do you like about working at State Farm Insurance?

"I like the company's vision for the future, and the company's working environment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Interviewees should ask about the management style of the company."

What don't you like about working at State Farm Insurance?

"My commute is too long, and I dislike the frequent shuffling of project phases."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management style could benefit from a more hands-on approach of the project."

What do you like about working at State Farm Insurance?

"I like the quality of work, the good infrastructure, good coworkers, and good team."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Nothing specific, but it's a good company to work for. Work quality will be good."

What don't you like about working at State Farm Insurance?

"I dislike the work place, locality, weather, transport, being away from family, and housing that is not good."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The cafeteria could have been better, and there is no library in all buildings."

"Great working for the client."

What do you like about working at State Farm Insurance?

"Benefits were great, and the ability to go the extra mile to get the job done was great."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just make sure to ask about what happens after one role is complete, what needs to be done."

What don't you like about working at State Farm Insurance?

"After the project was completed, there was no bench time in between projects."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Maybe they could include bench time to allow for the searching of other internal jobs when one project is complete."

What do you like about working at State Farm Insurance?

"I like technology and application (financial) and co-workers over there."

What don't you like about working at State Farm Insurance?

"I do not like working for State Farm because it is not in Chicago and I had to commute every week."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try to have a right vision and mission."

"My experience at State Farm was enjoyable and enhanced my knowledge and skill set."

What do you like about working at State Farm Insurance?

"I liked having the opportunity to learn and grow on the job at State Farm. The ability to learn and implement new technologies as a part of my work while creating meaningful documents and training content that enabled the smooth function of the very large, corporate IT division was enjoyable work. However, I desire relocation to the Nashville area to be closer to my father, who recently suffered a stroke."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It is important to be knowledgeable in your field, friendly, personable, professional, articulate, and a fast, critical thinker in order to successfully interview with and gain employment at State Farm. Sharpening interview skills via careful preparation of documents and responses to detailed questions regarding qualifying skill sets is a great idea!"

What don't you like about working at State Farm Insurance?

"Vertical communication within State Farm is slow and overly congested. While this can be typical for large organizations (State Farm's corporate headquarters hosts more than 17,000 employees), the result is that simple requests and communiques can become lost or receive painfully slow responses that negatively impact work flow. This was my least favorite part about working at State Farm."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"State Farm management should simplify and ease internal, vertical communication by creating a strong, lateral communication structure that includes checks and balances that can enable workers to gain approvals and/or access as needed, without waiting for responses from far-removed colleagues who are higher up the command chain."

What do you like about working at State Farm Insurance?

"State Farm conducts business with integrity and honesty, and values its employees during difficult economic times. Loyalty is rewarded, albeit slowly, and advancement and challenge can be found if sought with enough diligence."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Really consider whether the company is a good fit for your long-term goals. If security and stability are primary concerns then it may be a good fit, as State Farm is one of the most secure companies I have encountered. However, if you want to create something new, to affect change, to innovate, then another company would be a better fit."

What don't you like about working at State Farm Insurance?

"Whereas I have a good amount of control in my current role, the majority of employees comprising the claims workforce are over-managed, under-supported, misunderstood, and laden with policies set to manage the lowest common denominator employee. Efficiency rules the day, autonomy is dissipated, and professionalism has declined with the loss of inherent dignity in our claim roles."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Becoming a more agile responsive company is an admirable goal, but would be better served by infusing all layers of leadership with fresh employees from diverse backgrounds in the company. Simply retaining the same group of leaders and issuing new edicts does not equal change. Remember, this is the set of leaders who protected the status quo and led the company into stagnancy. Promotion of innovators, subversive thinkers, and creators is needed to supplement the old guard's experience, but cannot replace it. The company needs both groups working together. Easier said."